I was 13 when The Beastie Boys burst onto the scene with Licensed to Ill. It was a bratty, nasty, funny combination of rap, rock and roll, and bad behavior. It was the soundtrack to my life back in the mid-80s. 13 years later, while playing at the Reading Festival, the Beasties got into it with The Prodigy over their hit song Smack My Bitch Up, saying that they didn’t want to be sharing a stage with sentiments like that. [...]
Deus Ex: Human Revolution had a lot to live up to on its release as the modern prequel to a classic among PC gamers, Deus Ex. Its predecessor is still fondly remembered as one of the greatest PC games of all time, praised for its freedom in accomplishing objectives, the complexity of its story, and blending of RPG, stealth, and shooter elements that was revolutionary at the time. Fortunately, its successor does not sacrifice any of these things for a [...]
Tyler, Trey, and I were sitting around Twinfinite HQ the other day, talking about Hitman: Absolution. Specifically, we were discussing the way we each like to play games which allow for customized styles. Tyler, being a sneaky backstabbing type, prefers the ‘silent assassin’ method of slipping in and out without being detected. Trey, on the other hand, approaches missions like they’re an opportunity to live out his fantasy of reenacting the warehouse scene from RoboCop. Personally, I’m more a fan [...]
With the recent release of Dishonored, I think it is appropriate to do a retrospection of one of the games that inspired it- the original Deus Ex. All the aspects that make Dishonored great- the stealth mechanics, the role-playing elements, and most importantly the open-endedness in the way the player can approach a problem- all that resonates from a game that was released more than a decade ago. Although Deus Ex is a game many have heard about, not so [...]
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